Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley

Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley is a selection of Halley's work from 2007 to 2015. These paintings all have a similarity of a distinctive double-stack composition, two prisons or cells, one precariously suspended above another. In the catalogue essay, Colin Gardner suggests that, “a twist on the artist’s earlier horizontal, side by side cell and conduit paintings (with their necessary sense of enclosure).”  These works project a worldview in which technology and social connections are uncontrollable, expressed through a geometry that has lost its claim to rationality and become senseless and absurd.